Excellent Eggs activity ideas

Spoken language

• Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge.
• Use relevant strategies to build their vocabulary.
• Maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on topic and initiating and responding to comments.
• Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.

Mathematics

• Measure and begin to record lengths and heights.
• Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction.

Art and Design

• To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

Science

• Identify and name a variety of common animals including birds.
• Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals.

Physical eduation

• Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges, both individually and within a team.

Design and Technology

• Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.
• Understand where food comes from.

Spoken language

• I can show my understanding of what I listen to or watch by responding to and asking different kinds of questions.

Mathematics

• I can estimate how long or heavy an object is, or what amount it holds, using everyday things as a guide, then measure or weigh it using appropriate instruments and units.

Art and Design

• Inspired by a range of stimuli, I can express and communicate my ideas, thoughts and feelings through activities within art and design.

Science

• I can distinguish between living and non-living things. I can sort living things into groups and explain my decisions.

Physical eduation

• I am developing my movement skills through practice and energetic play.

Design and Technology

• I experience a sense of enjoyment and achievement when preparing simple healthy food and drinks.
• I explore and discover where foods come from as I choose, prepare and taste different foods.

Spoken language

• Listen and respond appropriately and effectively with growing attention and concentration.
• Extend their vocabulary through activities that encourage their interest in words.

Mathematics

• Use uniform non-standard units for comparison, and see the need for standard units of measure; use standard metric units of length, mass and capacity.

Art and Design

• Explore and experiment with a variety of techniques and materials.

Science

• Observe differences between animals and plants, different animals, and different plants in order to group them.

Physical eduation

• Practicing different types of games play.

Spoken language

• Express thoughts, feelings and opinions in response to personal experiences, imaginary situations, literature, media and curricular topics and activities.
• Present ideas and information with some structure and sequence.
• Devise and ask questions to find information in social situations and across the curriculum.

Mathematics

• Choose and use simple measuring instruments, reading and interpreting them with reasonable accuracy.

Art and Design

• Explore the visual elements of colour, tone, line, shape, form, space, texture and pattern to express ideas.

Science

• How place influences plant and animal life.

Physical eduation

• Develop the skills relevant to games, including running, stopping, jumping and skipping.